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Monday, August 7th 2023 / Friday, November 3rd 2023

Laura Rozen Diplomatic by Laura Rozen, July 28, 2023 “I have the sense that there’s unrealistic expectations on both sides. And the reason for that is that this process right now, and where we are in the bilateral relationship between the U.S. and the Saudis, is driven by narrow political interests and agendas and timelines […]

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Monday, August 7th 2023 / Friday, November 3rd 2023

David M. Weinberg Jerusalem Post, Aug. 3, 2023 “For Saudi Arabia this means it “must” pull away from oil market coordination with the Russians, and “must” distance itself in all diplomatic and trade matters from the Chinese. For Israel, this means it “must” permanently abandon plans to annex the West Bank, “must” permanently abandon judicial […]

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Monday, August 7th 2023 / Friday, November 3rd 2023

Seth J. Frantzman Jerusalem Post, June 29, 2023 “Normalization could happen, however, the election of a right-wing government is a setback. Normalization could happen, but first there must be comprehensive peace, and the right-wing government makes that harder.”   Integration of the Middle East as a group of countries in a region is important, including […]

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Monday, August 7th 2023 / Friday, November 3rd 2023

Jonathan S. Tobin JNS, Aug. 2, 2023 “The main benefit of such a deal in Friedman’s eyes is that it would put Netanyahu in a tight spot.”   According to New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman, President Joe Biden is trying to do Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a big favor. That would involve the administration finally […]

Communiqués Isranet Daily Briefing

Sunday, August 6th 2023 / Friday, November 3rd 2023

Citation de la semaine: « D’un autre côté, la coexistence entre les juifs et les arabes au Maroc a duré pendant des siècles, et cela reste l’un des piliers du pays. J’ai visité le Liban, et lors d’un dîner où des intellectuels libanais étaient présents, je leur ai dit avec regret que les arabes ne […]

Analysis

Friday, August 4th 2023 / Friday, November 3rd 2023

SHABBAT READING The Origins of Tefillin: Dr. Yehudah Cohn, The Torah.com, Aug. 24, 2016 — Why did the practice of tefillin come into being? The first and second paragraphs of the Shema prayer, found in the Torah readings of Va’ethanan and Eikev respectively, may appear to resolve the issue, ostensibly ordaining the practice of head and arm tefillin. I will try to show that […]

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Friday, August 4th 2023 / Friday, November 3rd 2023

Adrian Karatnycky Foreign Policy, July 11, 2023 “Obama’s Russia policy, including his embrace of the doctrine of Kremlin escalation dominance, has continued to shape U.S. policy during the Trump and Biden administrations.”   In an interview with Times Radio in May, Richard Dearlove, the former head of Britain’s MI6, observed that “the policy that [U.S. President Barack] Obama followed […]

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Friday, August 4th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

David Samuels Tablet, Aug. 2, 2023 “It was not Obama’s Blackness that bothered her, but that he would not condemn antisemitism.” There is a fascinating passage in Rising Star, David Garrow’s comprehensive biography of Barack Obama’s early years, in which the historian examines Obama’s account in Dreams from My Father of his breakup with his longtime Chicago girlfriend, […]

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Friday, August 4th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Michael Ginsberg American Greatness, July 21, 2023 “What does [Obama] offer? First and foremost: his face. Think of it as the most effective potential re-branding of the United States since Reagan. Such a re-branding is not trivial – it’s central to an effective war strategy.” Barack Obama succeeded. He promised his presidency would fundamentally transform […]

Analysis

Friday, August 4th 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Mark Dubowitz Tablet, Jan. 9, 2023 “Obama’s big Iran play was neither ‘values-driven’ nor purely pragmatic.” The eventual fall of the Islamic Republic of Iran will reveal the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement to have been one of the worst unforced strategic errors in the history of U.S. foreign policy. At home, the Islamic Republic is […]

Isranet Daily Briefing

Thursday, August 3rd 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Statement by PM Netanyahu:  Prime Minister’s Office, July 25, 2023 — “Dear citizens of Israel, I would like to begin with the most moving scene that I have witnessed in the past 24 hours. Last night, masses of Israelis came to demonstrate in favor of the reform and against the reform. On one side of […]

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Thursday, August 3rd 2023 / Thursday, November 2nd 2023

Dov Lieber WSJ, July 28, 2023 “… right-wing governments that have been in power since the late 1970s have never been able to fully carry out their vision because the Supreme Court has repeatedly struck down major legislative priorities.”   Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition scored a major victory this week when it passed the first part […]